Hinge.



HINGE. APPLICATiON FILED JULY 14. 1916.

LQUEMSGQ Patented Dec. 12,1916.

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saraarns arrest CHARLES J. SOSS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR'OFONE-THIRD TO HENRY 5083 AND ONE-THIRD TO SAMUEL SUSS, BOTH OF NEW YORK,N. Y.

HINGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, 19 16,.

Application filed July 14, 1916. Serial No. 109,207.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, CHARLES J. Soss, acitizen of the United States, and residing at New York, in the county ofNew York and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Hinges, of which the following is a specification, suchas will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to makeand use the same.

This invention relates to hinges and particularly to what are known asinvisible hinges, and the object thereof is to provide an improveddevice of this class designed particularly for use in connection withthe doors of automobiles and similar vehicles and the construction andarrangement of which is such that the door may be detached wheneverdesired for any purpose without detaching that part of the hinge whichis connected with the door frame; a further object being to provideimproved means for holding the separate parts of the hinge againstrattling in the operation of opening and closing the door, said meansgiving tension to the means for securing the separate parts of the hingetogether.

The invention herein described and claimed is an improvement on thatshown, described and claimed in U. S. Letters Patent granted to me onthe ldth day of September 1915, Serial No. 1,153,720, and is fullydisclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanyingdrawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement aredesignated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and inwhich Figure 1 is a side view of my improved hinge with part of theconstruction broken away and in section; Fig. 2 is a plane and sectionalview of my improved hinge showing one of the parts thereof in an openposition; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one part of my improved hingedetached; and, Fig. 4 a plan and sectional view of another part of saidhinge.

In the practice of my invention, I provide a hinge of the classspecified, comprising two hinge butts a and b, and the hinge butt a, inpractice, is secured to the door frame and countersunk therein in theusual manner and the hinge butt I) is secured to the door in the usualmanner.

The hinge butt a comprises, in the construction shown, a U-shaped boxmember 0? having parallel sides a provided at their free edges withlaterally directed wings a through which the screws pass for securingthe hinge to the door frame. The side wings a of the box member 2 areprovided centrally thereof with recesses a which open outwardly and onthe inner sides of the recesses a the sides a of the Usl1aped box memberare provided with laterally directed ears a which are cut from thematerial of said wings, as shown, and are provided with screw-holes aand the cars a close the recesses 64 on the inner sides of the wings aThe hinge butt I) comprises the usual plate 6 provided centrally of itsouter side with an L-shaped arm 6 and the free end portion 5 of the arm5 is provided with a pivot pin hole 6 In the construction shown thehinge butt 2') with its arm 5 is composed of two separate similar partsstamped from sheet metal and secured together by spot welding, forgingor in any other way, and each of these parts involve the plate member 5and apart of the arm I also provide a supplemental hinge member 0 whichcomprises a U-shaped box part having parallel side plates 0 provided intheir free edges with laterally directed ears 0 adapted to enter therecesses a and having countersunk screw holes c and the side plates 0are provided in one corner of their free edges with similar inwardlydirected lugs o and the part c is also stamped from sheet metal. 7

In assembling the parts of this'hinge, the L-shaped arm 6 of the butt 7)is inserted between the side plates 0 of the part c, and said parts areconnected by a pivot pin passed through the hole I) in the arm 6 andother corresponding holes 0 in the side plates 0 of the part c, andwhile th part 0 actually forms a part of the butt Z), it is, inpractice, secured to the butt a by means of screws (Z. After the part 0has been connected with the arm 5 of the part b in the manner described,said part 0 is inserted into the hinge butt a as shown in Figs. 1 and 2,and in this operation the ears 0 of the part 0 enter the recesses a andthe screws cl are passed through the holes 0 and a and the hinge isready for use.

The construction above described is the same as that described andclaimed'in thepatent above referred to and, in the practice of thisinvention, the rear corner portions of the butt a or the U-shaped boxmember a thereof, are cut out as shownat a to form side spring membersa, as clearly shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 4c, and the rear corner portionsof the part 0 of the hinge are correspondingly cut out as shown at c inFigs. '1, 2 and 3. 7

With this construction, in securing the part -0 within and to the hingebutt a, the inner end portion of the part c, or the corners 0 thereofbear on the spring members a of the butt (6 and the screws (Z willthereby be given tension as will be readily understood, or in otherwords, the screws cl for securing the part 0 in place will be alwaysunder tension due to the spring members a and as will be seen onconsidering Figs. 1 and f2, clearance is allowed between the ears '0 andears a as shown at e, as well as between the inner end of the part 0 andthe corresponding end of the U-shaped boX member a as shown at 6 WVithmy improvement it will also be noted that the part 0 is held againstrattling or movement of any kind by reason of the fact that the innerend thereof is firmly held in place by the spring members a and Withthis construction the operation of opening and closing the door isfacilitated and all possible movement in the Way of rattling isprevented and the screws cl are also held against displacement by reasonof the tension thereon.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a hinge, a box-shaped part adapted to be secured in a stationarysupport, a U- shaped member detachably connected with Said part, andspring members connected with the box-shaped part and in connection withwhich said U-shaped member operates to hold the same against movementand to give tension to the means for securing the U-shaped member in thebox-shaped part.

2. A hinge butt composed of main and suplemental parts, the main partbeing U- shaped in form and the closed end thereof being provided at itsopposite sides with inwardly directed ears, and the supplemental partbeing also U-sh-aped in form and being adapted to be inserted into themain part, and the closed end thereof being provided at its oppositesides with recesses to receive said ears.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my intention I have signed myname in presence of the subscribing witnesses thi- 12th day of July,1916.

CHARLES J. SOSS.

W itnesses C. E. MULREANY, H. E. -THOMPSON.

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